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Undress for Redress

Updated Aug. 23, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

Reports from India say teachers from Bihar state plan to march naked outside the national parliament next month to demand payment of back wages. Why wait until September? A spokesperson for the Front for Wageless Teachers of Bihar says many have not been paid since 1981, hundreds are on the verge of starvation and a few have been driven to suicide by the 15-year wait for a salary. Watching spoiled student protesters in Seoul wasting millions of taxpayer won with their self-indulgent antics, it's particularly painful to see poor Bihari educators perishing for want of a few rupees. The sooner they bare their grievances...